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# #22. Canine Anomalies, Filed.
- URL: https://www.layersofzoe.net/25-canine-anomalies-filed/
- Published: 2025-07-19T13:38:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-27T17:25:48.000Z
- Author: Layers of Zoe
- Tags: Signals, Doof & Sig, nonhuman

The paperwork never matches.  
The names are always “wrong.”  

At the park, someone calls out: Rex?  
And I think,  
What a heavy thing to name a dog.

Doof once ignored a priest.  
Sig grabbed a philosopher’s sleeve.  
They say I bit a nun at school.  

We’re not misbehaved.  
We’re misread.

Sometimes I wonder what will happen  
when we’re gone  
and someone else finds the tags.

*Hund Doofenshmirtz*. *Sigmund de Barros*.

Too long for urns. Too strange for sympathy cards.

Still: they *fit*.  
Because I didn’t choose their names,  
I located them.  
Like longitude.  
Or a lock already shaped to the key.

You can live your whole life  
responding to the wrong name  
and still die  
exactly yourself.